AuthorTopic: the case of the missing task bar (Read 3060 times)

Yes, it has gone. I tried the auto hide and thought it better visible so I turned it off again. When I came back to the computer (coffee break) it was gone, for good, never to return. What file do I hack to get the (expletive) thing back?

When you get it back before you log off check the "save session for future logins" checkbox. When you log back in everything will be the same as when you logged out. This time when you logout make sure that the "save session for future logins" is unchecked. That way when you lose something ( and you will ) the next time you log in you will revert to that previous working set of session settings.

Another tip. You can kill applications with ctrl-alt-esc then placing the skull and crossbones that appear on the application you want to kill. BEWARE you can kill the task bar, desktop and any thing else you accidentally click on.

Glad it worked. I should have remembered that whenever you start any process from a terminal, that process stops when you close the terminal. Sorry about that. Make sure you do what InTheWoods wrote about unchecking that box for saving sessions the next time you log out. I think it's unchecked by default in 5.9.

Anyway, I'm glad you like VL. I love this distro, it's perfect for me. I'm just another user, but a lot of people (users, developers, packagers ...) have helped me in these forums. It's one of the things that makes Vector so fantastic.

Tom

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"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." - Linus Torvalds, April 1991